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Posted by kurumi0 pt Wednesday, August 31, 2011

"Moteki" cast celebrates the movie's completion

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On August 30th, a special party celebrating the completion of the film adaptation of� "Moteki" was held in Roppongi, Tokyo.

The movie stars actors Moriyama Mirai, who will play the movie's protagonist, as well as his co-stars Nagasawa Masami, Asou Kumiko, Naka Riisa, and Maki Youko. The story chronicles the experience of Fujimoto Yukiyo, a thirty-year-old temporary worker who has never had much luck with women but suddenly finds himself becoming very popular with the ladies. "Last year up until this year was the most popular with ladies I'd been in my entire life," Moriyama said jokingly.

"Moteki" was a regular series in the Kodansha serialization "Evening" from 2008 to 2010, and ended with a total of 180 chapter across four volumes. The manga inspired a successful drama series of the same name that aired for several months last year, and also featured Moriyama as the lead. For the movie adaptation, Fujimoto graduates from being a temporary work and starts a new life as a writer on a news site utilizing a completely original story written by Kobo Mitsurou himself. Now thirty-one years old, Fujimoto experiences yet another "moteki" (period of time when one is popular with the opposite sex) and attracts four completely different women.

In the movie, Nagasawa Masami plays a cute magazine editor named Matsuo Miyuki who gets to know Fujimoto over Twitter, and also possesses a "murderous smile". Asou Kumiko will join in as Miyuki's close friend Masumoto Rumiko, a simple and naive woman who "reverse confesses" to Fujimoto. Ai, a mysterious woman who works at a girls bar and "reverse proposes" to the lucky main character, will be played by Naka Riisa. Lastly, Maki Youko will charm viewers with her character Karaki Motoko, a woman with a vicious mouth and a propensity for dirty jokes.

The main theme song is titled "Disco", and will be provided by Jooubachi. "Yoake no BEAT", the FUJIFABRIC song that served as the opening theme to the drama, will return for a reprise role as the opening track for the movie. "It's a movie so packed with J-POP and J-ROCK that you'll enjoy how we ended up whittling it down," Moriyama said brightly about the upcoming film.

"Moteki" will hit theaters on September 23rd.

Check out photos from the event below!

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Source: Mantan

  1. NAGASAWA-MASAMI
  2. NAKA-RIISA
  3. MAKI-YOUKO
  4. MOTEKI
  5. MORIYAMA-MIRAI
  6. ASOU-KUMIKO
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